You can support butterflies by doing these things: garden with natives and nectar plants; offer host plants; don’t use ...

The last two years, I’ve been planting common milkweed, doing my part to provide food for monarch butterflies. My focus has been on this one species, though, and I’ve recently realized that I need to ...

CHASKA, Minn. — Alan Branhagen is a butterfly expert, in addition to the operations director at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. LAURA: So Alan, when we are talking host plants for ...

Need courage? Look to butterflies. They live their short lives to the fullest after completely transforming themselves from a crawling caterpillar to a winged work of art. Some migrate hundreds of ...

Butterflies are some of our most beautiful pollinators. There is something romantic and magical about them fluttering in your flower bed or the prairie. Most adult butterflies can nectar on many ...

Many of us know about the unique relationship between monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and milkweed. The milkweed is the larval host plant for the caterpillar stage. Many Marin gardeners have ...

During the summer, I love to sit out on the patio and watch butterflies in my garden. All day long, especially on these hot summer days, they bring color and movement to my garden from the smallest ...

While out weeding the garden the other day, I excitedly approached my fennel. I like to grow fennel, not just because I like to eat it, but because black swallowtail butterflies (Papilio polyxenes) do ...

As Eric Carle once wrote, there was a “very hungry caterpillar.” It hatched from an egg and began its search for food. After about two weeks, it became a big, fat caterpillar — 2,000 times its ...